But on Thursday night, in a call with Senate staffers, Ford’s legal counsel indicated that she is open to a deal, as long as basic steps are taken to ensure her safety, emotional well-being, and right to be heard.

According to the Washington Post‘s Seung Min Kim and CNN’s Manu Raju, Ford’s attorney Debra Katz told staffers for the Judiciary Committee that she is willing to testify in a public hearing provided that it takes place next Thursday rather than Monday, that her safety can be guaranteed, that the GOP abandon their plan of bringing in an outside counsel to question her (which could make the proceedings more hostile and trial-like), and that Kavanaugh testify first so that she does not have to be in the same room with him.

Per Raju, “Ford attorneys did NOT draw hardly any red lines in the list of requests. Those were mostly asks and appear to be negotiable, sources say. The only red lines: Ensuring her safety and making sure she’s NOT in the same room as Kavanaugh.”

Ford alleges that at a party in Maryland when she was 15, Kavanaugh, then 17, pulled her into a room, held her down, groped her, tried to undress her, and covered her mouth to silence her when she screamed, all as Judge looked on and laughed.